Defunct Adolf Dethmann (born 3 December 1896, Neumünster; died 6 August 1979, Hamburg) was a German engineer, social scientist and communist activist and industrial manager.
Adolf Dethmann was a son of Hans Peter Adolf Dethmann (born 20 February 1865 in Meldorf) and his wife Katharina Henriette (Henny), (born Boysen on 8 December 1870 in Flensburg; died 1 October 1952 in Heikendorf).
[1] After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Dethmann was released from the Junkers works and arrested for "treason".
[2] After Dethmann was bombed out in Hamburg during World War II, he moved back to Plön (district) in Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany.
In the same year he was given a full-time job as a department head of the Economic Authority at the city of Kiel.